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7 JOHN R. NOLAN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COM-PANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

MACHINE FOR MAKING MATCH BOOKS.

Application filed July 28, 1920. SeriaLNo. 399,561.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN It. NOLAN, a citizen of the United States, andresident of the city of New York, in the county and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMachines for MakingMatch Books, of which the following is a specification.

' This invention relates to machines for making so-called book-matches,having reference, more especially, to mechanism for combining cards ofmatches with their respective covers.

The general object'of the invention is to provide a machine ofcomparatively simple construction whereby books, comprising associatedmatch cards and covers, are rapidly, accurately and economicallyproduced.

Specific objects, which I attain by various novel features ofconstruction and operation, will hereinafter appear.

Briefly described, the organized machine herein disclosed to exemplifythe principle of my invention, comprises an endless carrier to whichcovers, each having at its respective ends a folded and a flap portion,are delivered and thereby advanced in succeeding series; means wherebythe flap portions of the covers are flexed downward during theirprogress; means whereby match strips, as produced by a match makingmachine, are positioned adjacent the path of the depending flapportions; means whereby the thus positioned strips are uniformlysubdivided into rows of match cards; means whereby the cards of each roware delivered in alternate series to succeeding series of covers in thecarrier and entered in the end folds of the covers; means whereby theassociated cards and covers of each series are simultaneously fastenedtogether as rapidly as the cards are delivered to the covers; meanswhereby the cover flaps are folded upon their respective match cardsafter leaving the fastening means; means whereby the free ends of thefolded flaps are tucked under the fastened folds, and means whereby thebooks thus produced are discharged from the carrier.

The construction, organization and operations of the several means justreferred to will be hereinafter described in detail, and

,mechanism on a the precise scope of the invention then be defined inthe appended claims; it' being understood that my invention is notlimited to the specific form or forms of mechanism herein disclosed asthe same may be widely modified in many respects within the principle ofthe invention.

In the drawings- Figures 1, 1 represent a front elevation of abook-match machine embodyinga preferred form of my invention; anadjoining similar machine being indicated by the dotted llnes at theright of Fig. 1.

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the machine, looking at the right-hand endof Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a plan of the mechanism shown in Fig. 1, the cover supplyhoppers being in section.

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal vertical section of the said mechanism, as onthe line of'Fig. 3.

Fig. 4 is a view of the lower run of the main carrier, and adjuncts,including the device for bending and folding the cover flaps on saidcarrier. J

Fig. .5 is a horizontal section of the said on the line 55 0 Fig. 1.

Fig. '6 is a similar section on a plane below the table, as on .the line6ti of Fig. 1.

Fig. 7 is a transverse vertical section through the cover feedingdevices, as on the lines 7-7 of Figs. 3 and 6.

Fig. 8 is a transverse vertical section of the machine at the right ofthe strip-feeding and associated mechanisms, as on the lines 88 of Figs.3 and 6.

Fig. 9 is a similar section, enlarged, through said mechanisms, as onthe line 99 of Fig. 3.

'Fig. 10 is a partial vertical section through the strip-'cuttingandcard positioning mechanisms, as on the line 1010 of Fig. 9.

Fig. 11 is a sectional perspective view of a portion of the covercarrier, and adjuncts, including, amongst-other things, the matchstrippositioning carriage, and the devices for inserting divisions of thestrips into the lane above the table, as

